1. Where the Wild Things Are: $32 million The scorecard, from where we sit. Spike Jonze: 1 Warner Bros. suits: 0 Number of terrified children: 123,327 (estimated) A number one opening, glowing critical reviews,... read more

In which we rank the only night of comedy worth watching on television. 30 Rock Last Week: N/A Trending: Summary: Jenna goes country. Paycheck mix-ups. Pages go on strike. Yeah. OK. Not the strongest... read more

Yes. We know. It hasn't been truly brilliant in years. But back in the day—when you couldn't swing a Squishee without hitting a genius in the writers' room—The Simpsons offices were ground zero for... read more

Mad Men returns on August 16, so we called up creator Matthew Weiner and asked him to explain what season three will look like. He refused. We cajoled. Then he coughed up these tidbits on Don, Roger, and why the hell AMC tried to cut two minutes from every episode.—dan fierman
•"Roger's love for Jane put the company in play, and Roger used Don as
an excuse to get out of
his marriage. Don thought the whole thing was
a betrayal. So they have issues to work out."
•"Time has passed. I won't say how much, but the guys are definitely at different points in their lives."*
*Our guess: two years, bringing us to 1964.
•"I fought AMC cutting two minutes of the show. I love advertising. I write about advertising. I am an advocate of AMC making money. But an extra ad is a very limited financial reward for altering a show that put AMC on the map. Also, you are fighting the TiVo! Why give people less show?"
•"The Cuban Missile Crisis created a situation where the characters could
die tomorrow. Of course, some of them—like Betty—don't even notice and
just want to deal with their own problems."
•"This season will be thematically different than what we've done before, but it's the same people in the same world. Pete is there. Peggy is there. I want people who love the show to say, 'Oh, my gosh, I'm so glad to be back with these people. What's going to happen?' " ... read more

After years of playing the straight man on The Daily Show and The Office, EdHelms finally scores in The Hangover. And to think, to get noticed he just had to pull his own teeth out with a pair of pliers read more